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Across Canada, people are protesting planned AI data centres. In Canada, many proposed data centres will be fueled by fracked gas. Local citizens are also concerned about the downstream effects of AI on mental health, work, learning, and water consumption.
Join Isaac Murdoch and friends for a day in community: songs, stories, silk-screening and feast! Water is Love — A Community Gathering with Isaac Murdoch & Friends
August Sept 23, 10-4 pm in Georgetown, ON
GET DETAILS: https://www.facebook.com/events/864951963077320/
We are here to LOVE WATER. 💙
A day of music, art, songs, silk screening, feasting, and open mic — all in celebration of the water that gives us life. Everyone is welcome. 🌊🐢
Prime Minister Mark Carney made history last week with a surprise appearance at the CANSEC arms fair in Ottawa. With his radical shift towards arms investments and continuing cuts to pharmacare and other public services, it's not hard to see why.
BlackRock? Blackstone? JP Morgan? They'll all be in TO this September, as Carney and Ford look to auction off what's left of our public infrastructure.
We’re organizing the response. Join us Sept 12-14 for a counter-summit (feat. Naomi Klein) and protest: manyvsmoneysummit.ca
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From our friends at the Breach
Job Opportunity: Director of Membership and Development Strategy
Reporting to the Executive Director, the Director of Development leads the Council’s fundraising, donor engagement, and membership development programs. Working closely with campaign and organizational leadership, the Director is responsible for growing revenue, strengthening supporter relationships, and building the fundraising capacity needed to advance the Council’s mission.
Please apply here: https://canadians.org/job/job-posting-director-of-membership-and-development-strategy/
Coming this Tuesday at 1 pm (EST), join Council with special guest Janine MacLeod for an hour of grounding, learning, and conversation with water — its struggles, its stories, and its power to call us toward something different.
Join us! https://canadians.org/event/join-the-water-town-hall/
The first round of Take Back the Power community meetings has now wrapped, with seven events held across Nova Scotia. From Lower Sackville, Bridgewater, Annapolis Royal, and Wolfville, to Truro, Amherst, and Halifax, people came together to discuss the future of our electricity system and build momentum for change.
Read the tour recap here:
https://canadians.org/update/take-the-power-back-tour-recap/
Council's own Nikolas Barry-Shaw recently joined the CanCon podcast to discuss how Canada's promising pharmacare program became at risk of vanishing as quickly as it became reality.
Listen now https://elbows-up.simplecast.com/episodes/what-happened-to-canadas-pharmacare-plan
Althia Raj: "Grit MPs report Carney lashing out... [including] Winnipeg MP Doug Eyolfson, a physician, being told not to come to the prime minister with his concerns over the lack of federal response to Alberta’s two-tiered health care Bill 11"
Last week in Montreal, organizers, researchers, labour leaders, environmental advocates, journalists, artists, and community groups gathered for the Civil Society Summit on the AI Industry.
Together, we asked an urgent question: how is artificial intelligence shaping civil society in Canada?
Read the full Summit recap here: https://canadians.org/analysis/civil-society-summit-on-ai-recap/
Our panel, "The banality of killer robots: How can disarmament and arms control efforts counter autonomous weapons systems?" now has additional speakers. Charlotte Akin(Stop Killer Robots), Fanny Dagenais-Dion(Canadian Red Cross’s IHL Unit), and Azeezah Kanji(legal academic and journalist), who will be moderated by Kristen Thomasen(University of Windsor).
Join our “Fund Healthcare, Not Warfare” Ottawa Bus Tour to call for public money to support healthcare, not conflict. Together, we’ll travel to Ottawa and learn more about how the fight for public healthcare and against militarism are intertwined.
https://www.zeffy.com/en-CA/ticketing/fund-healthcare-not-warfare-ottawa-bus-tour
